Validating Early Post-Transplant Outcomes Reported for Recipients of Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Data reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) are used in kidney transplant research, policy development, and assessment of center quality, but the accuracy of early post-transplant outcome measures is unknown.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

The Deceased Donor Study (DDS) is a prospective cohort study at five transplant centers. Research coordinators manually abstracted data from electronic records for 557 adults who underwent deceased donor kidney transplantation between April of 2010 and November of 2013. We compared the post-transplant outcomes of delayed graft function (DGF; defined as dialysis in the first post-transplant week), acute rejection, and post-transplant serum creatinine reported to the OPTN

SUBMITTER: Potluri VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4741043 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature